Artels, a kind of semi-formal associations for co-operative labor, were widely spread in Russia right up to the early twentieth century. The most popular explanation of this phenomenon is specific Russian mentality, the so-called “artelnostâ€, i.e. the internal commitment to collective...

This paper was presented at International Society for New Institutional Economics 11th Annual Conference. June 21–23, 2007. Reykjavik, Iceland. Panel 8.3. Comparative Institutional Analysis.

Full text in Russian. Executive summary is available at pp.53-56 in English.